I'm back

Haha it's funny, I haven't blogged for such a long time and suddenly I feel compelled to blog after witnessing an extremely interesting occurance in my platoon.

Oops. Did I mention that I enlisted? Haha.

Every single day, we live life in a gigantic medium for this grand social experiment, most of us unknowing actors pulled onto the stage and masked from their invisible audience. Having been in an environment filled with people who are supposedly the most driven and elite ones of this organisation (my comments on this, I reserve), I literally see people from all walks of life interacting and with this interaction, we the research subjects come up with amazing observations that triggers powerful learning to those keeping an active eye on us, namely us.

Having reached the final 3 weeks of this arduous OCS journey, I still cannot say that I know every, if any, of my 31 platoon mates like the back of my hand. Great minds concoct marvelous ideas, but jealously guard their contents too for many reasons, some perfectly justifiable, some just plain stupid, and some, for no apparent reason at all apart from perhaps a sweeping mistrust in all things alive. I mean, even now when peer review doesn't matter, we still have keyboard warriors taking potshots at everyone in the platoon maybe to make themselves appear a little better in comparison.

But I digress. This post was supposed to be about this script-worthy character in my platoon. Let's just call him John. Since the past few months, John has always introduced himself as a person who was from this rather decent JC, scoring quite decent grades and having rather cool friends. Naturally nobody had any issues with this funny fellow, and apart from getting into a few misdemeanors, he was pretty much just another one of the guys.

Recently though, (in fact today), this person's buddy, A and another guy, B discovered that John wasn't whoever he claimed to be. He was, in fact, from a much less decent JC, if it even counts as a JC, and his grades weren't as spectacular as he claims they are either. This, however, isn't my nuance that got my thoughts provoked. What I find interesting was his buddy (A) and the other guy (B)'s reaction to their discovery.

Why is he living in his own world?
What if he isn't rich as he claims to be?
What sort of person is he, really, if he's lying about his identity?
Why must he lie?

The list goes on.

(Will blog again tmr filling in my take on this) Haha